Bill Konigsberg Quotes
The idea that because things are worse somewhere else, you’re not allowed to have issues in your life. That’s what people who are trying to avoid having normal feelings say.
Quotes to Explore
-
Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
-
I always have issues with trust.
-
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
-
And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
-
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
-
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
-
I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
-
I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
-
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
-
As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
-
I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
-
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
-
I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
-
You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
-
Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
-
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
-
Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
-
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
-
Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
-
I believe I would be a very strong general-election candidate.
-
The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
-
Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
-
The idea that because things are worse somewhere else, you’re not allowed to have issues in your life. That’s what people who are trying to avoid having normal feelings say.
